# Franklin Templeton

> Franklin Templeton is a VC fund in Mumbai backing Software and SaaS. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2470432
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/ftiindia
- Website: http://www.franklintempletonindia.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/franklintempletonindia

Franklin Templeton is a VC fund in Mumbai focused on Software and SaaS. Franklin Templeton India offers some of the best and top mutual funds in India. Buy a wide variety of mutual funds online. These enable the company to offer customers with a distinctive investing viewpoint formed by local experience, global context, and a long-term investment vision.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 26% |
| SaaS | 4 | 21% |
| Biotechnology | 4 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 21% |
| Health Care | 3 | 16% |

59 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 11% |
| Series B | 2 | 11% |
| Series C | 2 | 11% |
| Series E | 2 | 11% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 2 | 11% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 53% |
| India | 5 | 26% |
| Germany | 1 | 5% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jenny Johnson | President and CEO | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jenny-johnson-87bd |
| Julian Ide | Head of EMEA Distribution | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Meesho | Meesho operates as an online reselling platform that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Meesho is a business platform trusted by more than 2.6 million resellers across India. The company was founded in 2015 by Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwa and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. | $205M | Post-IPO Secondary | Aug 04, 2026 |  |
| ideaForge | ideaForge develops and produces Unmanned Aerial Systems that offer unmatched usability due to its user-centric innovations and design. With a focus on sustainable use in operation, it ensures the highest quality and performance of its products. It is in constant pursuit of creating products that inspire a new vision.Founded in 2007 by IIT Mumbaialumni Ankit Mehta, Rahul Singh, Vipul Joshi, and Ashish Bhat, IdeaForge is headquartered in Mumbai, India. | $51.9M | Post-IPO Equity | Jul 14, 2026 |  |
| Biocon | Biocon is a fully integrated healthcare company that delivers innovative biopharmaceutical solutions. From discovery to development and commercialisation, Biocon has the defining science, cost-effective drug development capabilities and significant manufacturing capacity to move ideas to market. | $382M | Post-IPO Secondary | Jul 13, 2026 |  |
| Namdev Finvest | Namdev Finvest operates a non-banking finance platform that provides loans to rural and semi-urban agriculture, as well as the priority sector. | $37M | Debt Financing | Jan 18, 2026 |  |
| Shrapnel | Shrapnel is an AAA Extraction FPS powered by next-gen community-driven tools, built on the blockchain to offer true ownership. | $20M | Series A | Oct 25, 2023 |  |
| Updater Services | Updater Services (P) Limited is India's largest facility management services company, with more than 35,000 people spread across the country with a strong branch network. UDS offers a comprehensive and integrated facility management services for Commercial, IT Parks, Township, Manufacturing, Hospitality, Healthcare, Residential, Retail, BFSIand other industries. | $34.5M |  | Sep 22, 2023 |  |
| KresusLabs | Kresus allows users to connect to their bank accounts and view their transactions, balances, and budgets.It supports a wide range of banks and financial institutions also allows users to categorize their expenses and view insights into their spending habits and uses end-to-end encryption to protect users | $25M | Series A | Mar 07, 2023 |  |
| Our Next Energy | Our Next Energy is a Michigan-based developer of innovative energy storage solutions with a vision to rapidly expand the world's access to sustainable power. | $300M | Series B | Feb 01, 2023 |  |
| Celonis | Celonis believes that every company can unlock its full execution capacity. Powered by its market-leading process mining core, the Celonis Execution Management System provides a set of instruments and applications, the Celonis Studio as well as platform capabilities for business executives and users. The Celonis EMS offerings help companies manageevery facet of execution management from analytics to strategy and planning, management, actions, and automation. | $400M | Series D | Aug 23, 2022 |  |
| Coherent | Coherent transforms businesses, starting with a single cell. We unify developers and non-developers to redefine how business and IT teams work together. We transform spreadsheets into APIs, end-users into developers, and risk into control. | $75M | Series B | Apr 27, 2022 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fidelity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fidelity-investments) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Franklin Templeton](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/franklin-templeton-investments) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Franklin Templeton invest in?

Franklin Templeton invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Franklin Templeton?

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### Who are the partners at Franklin Templeton?

The team at Franklin Templeton includes Jenny Johnson (President and CEO) and Julian Ide (Head of EMEA Distribution). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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